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Wormser is a surname associated with Worms, Germany. Notable people with the surname include: *André Wormser (1851–1926), French banker and Romantic composer *Baron Wormser (born 1948), American poet * Felix Wormser (died 1981), American engineer and government official *Frances Dewey Wormser (1903–2008), American actress, entertainer, and vaudeville performer * Lewis Wormser Harris (1812-1876), bill-broker, financier, member of Dublin Corporation, and member of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation *Paul Wormser (1905–1944), French fencer *Richard Wormser (1908–1977), American writer *Sekl Loeb Wormser (1768-1846), German rabbi See also * * *Wormser Dom St Peter's Cathedral (German: ''Wormser Dom'') is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral in Worms, southern Germany. The cathedral is located on the highest point of the inner city of Worms and is the most important building of the Roma ... {{surname, Wormser German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worms, Germany
Worms () is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about south-southwest of Frankfurt am Main. It had about 82,000 inhabitants . A pre-Roman foundation, Worms is one of the oldest cities in northern Europe. It was the capital of the Kingdom of the Burgundians in the early fifth century, hence is the scene of the medieval legends referring to this period, notably the first part of the ''Nibelungenlied''. Worms has been a Roman Catholic bishopric since at least 614, and was an important palatinate of Charlemagne. Worms Cathedral is one of the imperial cathedrals and among the finest examples of Romanesque architecture in Germany. Worms prospered in the High Middle Ages as an imperial free city. Among more than a hundred imperial diets held at Worms, the Diet of 1521 (commonly known as ''the'' Diet of Worms) ended with the Edict of Worms, in which Martin Luther was declared a heretic. Worms is also one of the historical ShUM-cities as a cultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Wormser
André Alphonse Toussaint Wormser (1 November 1851 – 4 November 1926) was a French Romantic composer. Life and career André Wormser was born in Paris and studied with Antoine Marmontel and François Bazin at the Paris Conservatoire. As a very wealthy man, Wormser was able to afford a membership in the social club ''Cercle artistique et littéraire''. In 1872 Wormser won the Premier Prix in piano at the Paris Conservatoire, and in 1875 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata ''Clytemnestre''. He is best known for the pantomime ''L'Enfant prodigue'' (1890), which was revived at the Booth Theater in New York in 1916 as the three-act play ''Perroit the Prodigal''. He died in Paris. Notable students include Charles Malherbe Charles Théodore Malherbe (21 April 1853 – 5 October 1911) was a French violinist, musicologist, composer and music editor. Life and career Malherbe was born in Paris, son of Pierre Joseph Malherbe (1819–1890) and Zoé Caroline Mozin (1832â .... Work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Wormser
Baron Wormser (born 1948, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet. Biography Baron Wormser was born in Baltimore on February 15, 1948. He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University, later doing graduate studies at the University of California, Irvine, University of California-Irvine and University of Maine. Wormser served as librarian for 25 years in Madison, Maine. Wormser served as Poet Laureate of Maine from 2000 to 2006.Bio ''baronwormser.com''. Retrieved 2016-05-15. In 2000, he was writer in residence at the University of South Dakota. Since 2002, he has taught in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Maine at Farmington, University of Maine-Farmington, and since 2009, Fairfield University. He founded the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Wormser
Felix Edgar Wormser (died June 29, 1981) was an American engineering and former government official who served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Mineral Resources in the United States Department of the Interior from 1954 to 1957. Biography Wormser was born in Santa Barbara, California and graduated from Columbia School of Mines with a degree in mining engineering in 1916. At Columbia, he was a member of the men's varsity crew team. He was employed by the United States Bureau of Mines until 1919, when he served in the United States Army. From 1920 to 1925, Wormser was a member of the editorial staff of McGraw Hill. He then worked as a consulting mining engineer from 1925 to 1947. He was a trustee of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers from 1940 to 1945. Wormser was secretary-treasurer of the Lead Industries Association and vice president of St. Joe Minerals from 1947 to 1953, when he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Mineral Resource ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Dewey Wormser
Frances Dewey Wormser (June 23, 1903 – January 28, 2008) was an American stage actress, entertainer and vaudeville performer. Personal life Frances Dewey was born in New York City on June 23, 1903, the daughter of Alfred James Dewey (1874–1958), a California artist who was considered the "dean" of an early art colony in Sierra Madre, California. She later took up painting herself. Dewey married her first husband, Orin Zoline, in the later 1930s, approximately the same time that she retired from entertaining. Zoline died in the 1950s. She married her second husband, Morton Wormser, during the same decade. They lived in Sarasota, Florida, for over 25 years. Morton Wormser was an avid tennis player and supporter of the sport. As a result of this interest, professional tennis player Martina Navratilova lived with Frances and Morton when she first arrived in the United States in the early 1970s. Frances and Morton Wormser traveled "around the world" on their honeymoon. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Wormser Harris
Lewis Wormser Harris (1812–1876) was an Irish bill-broker, financier, member of the Dublin Corporation and prominent member of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation. He was the first Jew elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, but died before he could take office. Background Harris was born Samuel Wormser on 5 April 1812, to Isaac Samuel Wormser and Sheinle Ephraim, in Aldingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. He moved to Ireland in 1821, living in the residence of a Charles Harris, a watchmaker, and soon after adopted the surname Harris. He operated very successfully as a financier with offices in Suffolk Street, Dublin. Political career In 1874, he was elected Alderman of Dublin Corporation representing the South Dock Ward, the first member of Dublin's Jewish community to hold such a position. In 1876 he was the first Jew elected as Lord Mayor; however, he died just before he was due to take up the office. Jewish community On three occasions he was President of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation: 184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wormser
Paul Wormser (11 June 1905 Р17 August 1944) was a French fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team ̩p̩e event at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... References External links * 1905 births 1944 deaths Sportspeople from Colmar French male ̩p̩e fencers Olympic fencers of France Fencers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics French civilians killed in World War II French Resistance members Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany French people executed by Nazi Germany People executed by Nazi Germany by firearm Deaths by firearm in France 20th-century French people {{France-fencing-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wormser
Richard Edward Wormser (February 2, 1908 in New York City, New York – July, in Tumacaciori, Arizona) was an American writer of pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns, some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend. He is estimated to have written 300 short stories, 200 novelettes, 12 books, many screenplays and stories turned into screenplays, and a cookbook: ''Southwest Cookery or At Home on the Range''. Literary accomplishments After graduating from Princeton University he became a prolific writer of pulp fiction under his own name, the pen name of Conrad Gerson, and wrote seventeen Nick Carter novels for Street & Smith. Wormser's first crime fiction novel was ''The Man with the Wax Face'' in 1934. His first Western novel was ''The Lonesome Quarter'' in 1951. Hollywood purchased several of his stories beginning with his ''It's All in the Racket'' filmed as ''Sworn Enemy'' in 1936. Columbia Pictures signed him for a short term writing contract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekl Loeb Wormser
Sekl Loeb Wormser (1768–1846) was a rabbi, talmudist, kabbalist, and Baal Shem (worker of miracles through the Name of God). Biography He was born in Michelstadt. He received his talmudic education in Frankfurt, in the yeshiva of Rabbi Nathan Adler, and following in the latter's footsteps, accepted an ascetic way of life and turned to kabbalistic studies. He resided in Frankfurt for a duration of six years, during which he married his first wife. About 1790, he returned with his wife to Michelstadt where he maintained a yeshiva for many years (serving as ''rosh yeshiva'' and instructing around seventy students in Tanakh, Talmud, and the works of the ''poskim'', as well as secular subjects including German and mathematics) and served, at first unofficially, until 1822 as a recognized district rabbi. About 1810, after his wife's death, he lived for some time in Mannheim. For years, his "hasidic" behavior and extreme vegetarianism (at age 18 he vowed to abstain from animal pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wormser Dom
St Peter's Cathedral (German: ''Wormser Dom'') is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral in Worms, southern Germany. The cathedral is located on the highest point of the inner city of Worms and is the most important building of the Romanesque style in Worms. It is closely associated with Bishop Burchard and the high point of Worms' history in the 12th and 13th centuries. It was the seat of the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Worms until its extinction in 1802, during German mediatisation. After the extinction of the bishopric, it was reduced in status to that of a parish church; however, it was bestowed the title of minor basilica in 1925 by Pope Pius XI. Most of the cathedral was finished by 1181, however the west choir and the vaulting were built in the 13th century, the elaborate south portal was added in the 14th century, and the central dome has been rebuilt. Great events associated with the cathedral include the nomination of Leo IX as Pope in 1048, the Concorda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
